Ten thousand years ago, something unworldly happened on earth. Something long forgotten. Something unearthed only in the 20th century. And now a crack team of scientists and soldiers has the power to go beyond the last frontier of space on an ultrasecret mission to probe the greatest mystery in the universe. They have no clue what they will find. Or if they can return. Only one thing is sure. The ultimate adventure is about to being when they enter the Stargate.

When the crack team of scientists and soldiers entered the Stargate, armed rebellion on a planet a million light-years away was the last thing on their minds. Now that it's started, no one can ignore it -- not commando Jack O'Neil, not renegade Egyptologist Daniel Jackson, and most of all not the newly freed people of Abydos. But both the U.S. Army and Ra's vicious successor, Hathor, have other ideas for the Stargate.

Rebellion gave the Abydans their freedom, but unexpected betrayal has endangered new alliances. Now, with chaos in the streets, the time is ripe for the return of the enraged Hathor and her legions. Having bided her time, she plots the reconquest of a world. And this time, she brings a weapon more awesome than any the rebels can imagine -- for Hathor's bloodthirsty plans extend well beyond the Stargate.

The survivors of the tragic war on Abydos stagger back to Earth through a smashed StarGate, through a storm of treachery, greed, defeat, and bitterness. Some are prisoners. Some are outcasts. All know the final war has yet to come.

The titanic, pyramid-shaped wrecking ball under the command of the goddess Hathor is hurtling toward earth, bearing with it the power to enslave and destroy. And while the politicians argue, and the fighters of Abydos are held prisoner inside a Colorado mountain, renegade Egyptologist Daniel Jackson and fallen warrior Jack O'Neil must find a way to save their world. For in the face of Ra's magnificent war machine, Earth must now do what the Abydans could not: unite for its freedoom and its life....

Light-years from home, and only one step closer to hell, Stargate renegades Jack O'Neil and Daniel Jackson are plunged into an illusive paradise where an alien war could spell a mortal's doom....The colonists of Ballas are not the first to arrive, and they aren't welcome. With Hathor destroyed and her killer spaceship decimated, the Abydan regufees are awarded the privilege of first colonization. But their dream for wilderness planet of Ballas is turned into a nightmare by a native species with a predatory instinct for survival -- and a deadly ambition to win total Stargate control. Only O'Neil and Jackson can stop these armed feral warriors. But terminating their enemy's ultimate prize means destroying their own last hope of getting home alive....

Led by Colonel Jack O'Neil and Daniel Jackson, the Abydan refugees left Earth for a world of their own to call home. Instead they found hell ...

Earth's Stargate link to planet Ballas is broken, leaving the Abydan colonists stranded --- and stalked by a merciless enemy. Believed at first to be primitive beasts native to Ballas, these cat-like predators arrived through the Stargate --- possessing superior firepower and innate military cunning. But who are these aliens, and why are they on Ballas? The answers lie in the secret past of an alien race --- a race that is all too familiar to O'Neil and Jackson ...